Glyptocystites multipora
No picture of Glyptocystites multipora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Glyptocystites multipora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlyptocystitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Glyptocystites multipora on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
- Verulam Formation3
- Bromide Formation1
- Ottawa Formation · Trenton Group1
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The named rock units Glyptocystites multipora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glyptocystites multipora and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Glyptocystites multipora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Amygdalocystites florealis3 sites
- Cheirocrinus logani3 sites
- Amygdalocystites radiatus2 sites
- Pleurocystites filitextus2 sites
- Pleurocystites squamosus2 sites
- Alaskadiscus disculus1 site
- Amygdalocystites1 site
- Apodasmocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus lacunosus1 site
- Ateleocystites huxleyi1 site
- Carabocrinus1 site
- Carabocrinus treadwelli1 site
- Cheirocystis ardmorensis1 site
- Cleiocrinus regius1 site
- Comarocystites punctatus1 site
- Cyathocystis1 site
- Cyrtostropha salteri canadensis1 site
- Dendrocrinus1 site
- Dendrocystites1 site
- Echinosphaerites aurantium1 site
- Ectenocrinus1 site
- Eumorphocystis multiporata1 site
- Fusispira angusta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Glyptocystites multipora, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Echinodermata of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence lowland3
- Previous studies of Bromide echinoderms1
- Report for the year 18561
Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Glyptocystites multipora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Glyptocystites multipora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glyptocystites multipora was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGlyptocystites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1854